X. [Looking hard at MR. Y.] So we have to have another bout!
What kind of mischief are you up to now?
MR. Y. That's my secret.
MR. X. Just look at me--oh, you mean to write my wife an anonymous
letter giving away MY secret!
MR. Y. Well, how are you going to prevent it? You don't dare to
have me arrested. So you'll have to let me go. And when I am gone,
I can do what I please.
MR. X. You devil! So you have found my vulnerable spot! Do you
want to make a real murderer out of me?
MR. Y. That's more than you'll ever become--coward!
MR. X. There you see how different people are. You have a feeling
that I cannot become guilty of the same kind of acts as you. And
that gives you the upper hand. But suppose you forced me to treat
you as I treated that coachman?
[He lifts his hand as if ready to hit MR. Y.]
MR. Y. [Staring MR. X. straight in the face] You can't! It's too
much for one who couldn't save himself by means of the box over
there.
ME. X. So you don't think I have taken anything out of the box?
MR. Y. You were too cowardly--just as you were too cowardly to
tell your wife that she had married a murderer.
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